*[en español [ES] abajo]
corporate poetry
by Alex Saum
[EN] is an exploration into how corporate language [through its many standardized forms] captures and relates to those other corpora that are our bodies. It is composed of rooms, backrooms and the poem “Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut”
[ES] es una exploración sobre cómo el lenguaje corporativo [a través de formularios estandarizados en sus muchas variantes] se relaciona con y captura ese otro corpora que son nuestros cuerpos. La serie está compuesta de habitaciones públicas y privadas y el poema “Potential Ideas and Other Things That Live in Your Gut”
rooms & backrooms
Room #1 *read/play here*
Watch *here* a reading of Room #1 for the Art Research Center at UC Berkeley
Room #2 *read/play here*
Room #3 *watch here*
Room #3 is a crossover poem between The Offline Website Project and corporate poetry.
Backroom #2. A response poem *watch here*
Backroom #3. Made to disappear *read here*
*Rooms #1 and #2 appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of The New River. Backroom #3 [Made to Disappear] in a special issue of perspektive magazine, Fall 2020. Rooms #1, #2, #3 and Backrooms #2 and #3 are also part of the online exhibition “Texts of Discomfort“ (Winter 2020). Room #3 was on display at Covid/E-Lit, online exhibition (Summer 2021) and at Caracteres, exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes, New York City (Spring 2023). Room #3 was anthologized in The Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 4.
Some scholars have written about corporate poetry. Find some select publications here.
Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut
Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in your Gut was published in Hyperrhiz n.24 (2021) and on display at “Refamiliarization” (Fall 2021).
[Alex's "corporate poetry" project is made possible thanks to generous support from the Poetry and the Senses 2020 Fellowship, Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley]